Environment

The Post and Courier By Andrew Brown and Thad Moore COLUMBIA — After months of delays, South Carolina lawmakers agreed on a plan Wednesday that would temporarily slash S.C. Electric & Gas customers’ power bills, ending a drawn-out debate over charges for unfinished nuclear reactors and likely throwing the state into…

Orangeburg Times and Democrat November 15, 2017 Moderation is usually best. But it appears to be lost in modern-day Washington. The fight is always over extreme proposals. A case in point: The Trump administration has proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency budget by 31 percent, largely aiming at climate programs…

Hilton Head Island Packet October 10, 2017 By Frank Knapp Jr. Special to The Island Packet Hurricane Harvey’s extensive flooding of the Houston area resulted in massive physical damage that was easily visible. However, it is the less visible damage that threatens lives after the flood waters recede. The Houston…

As South Carolina waits to find out if Hurricane Irma will impact the state, Hurricane Harvey has shown us there is more than wind and water damage to worry about — toxic waste. When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designates a toxic waste site as a Superfund site, it means it is…

Nine members of the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast met with 22 Congressional offices on March 30th and 31st. Our Hill Day volunteers came from Maine to Florida and represented the hospitality, fishing, investment and general business community (see below for a list of BAPAC participants). The elected…

This is our last chance to make permanent protection of the Atlantic from offshore oil drilling a reality. We made the in-person pitches last month in Washington with our first sign-on letter. Now we understand that our request is seriously being considered by the Obama administration to take this unusual (but legal) action. We just need one more big push.…

The below letter was sent to all the businesses and business organizations that signed a letter to President Obama calling for no seismic testing or offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast. As a member/supporter of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber, which co-founded the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic…

“President Obama, it’s time to protect our Atlantic Coast from offshore drilling forever.” That was the powerful message delivered to the Administration on Monday by the Business Alliance for Protecting (BAPAC) the Atlantic Coast, which the South Carolina Small Business Chamber co-founded this past September. Billionaire Tom Steyer joined the…

The Virginia-Pilot November 16, 2016 By Dave Mayfield Facing a new president who has said he favors opening the East Coast to oil and gas exploration, some environmental groups are pressing President Barack Obama to declare the waters off Virginia and other Atlantic states permanently off-limits to drilling before he…

Coastal Review 11/17/2016 by Mark Hibbs MOREHEAD CITY — A group of business leaders representing interests up and down the East Coast, including chambers of commerce, restaurant associations, commercial fishing groups and real estate organizations, are urging President Obama to use a provision of federal law to try and permanently…